Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 2 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 3 | The difficulties are obvious : lack of adequate data over the period and , more importantly , the thorny issue of cause and effect . |
| 4 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 5 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 6 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 7 | The financial costs of various resources ( such as costs of physical resources and labour ) should be quantified and a statement of required expenditure over the period obtained . |
| 8 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 9 | This study investigates the health of two substantial areas of basic science over the period 1960-85 , using various measures of health , such as citation analysis , publications , invited papers , peer esteem and migration patterns . |
| 10 | MacDonald claims that the only located source of systematic collection of data on the progress of non-traditional students over a period of years was at Glasgow Polytechnic for the BA Social Science course . |
| 11 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 12 | She says you have to have evidence of continued use over a period of time and in a variety of sources so that it 's not just very specialised and short-lived . |
| 13 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 14 | I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question . |
| 15 | Forget the idea of spreading material over a period of time or developing a number of different characters . ’ |
| 16 | Alternatively , negotiators may form a view about likely inflation over the period of the wage contract based on its recent past behaviour . |
| 17 | Andrew Gamble , in an article on " Continuity and discontinuity in economic policy " , has explored the first question with great care over the period 1960–81 . |
| 18 | But to return to our historical account , as if the picture was not already complicated enough , the Ministry of Education found its own way of promoting drama — to align it with Physical Education , a policy which was gradually put forward by certain Inspectors for Physical Education over a period of 20 years from about 1945 . |
| 19 | It shows the remarkable rise in total issues over the period in question and also shows the rising share of eurosterling issues in total issues . |
| 20 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 21 | A number of very different trends were to be seen in a sample of frequencies on bus routes , ranging from consistent decline over the period since 1939 to slight increase in recent years on a few routes . |
| 22 | Conditions for the facility include the curbing of inflation , the rebuilding of foreign exchange reserves to reach a positive current balance after three years , and steady annual economic growth of between 3 and 3.5 per cent in real terms over the period . |
| 23 | The entire collection will be shown in chronological order over a period of five years and each display will involve the restoration of the objects involved and their addition to a technical catalogue covering every object . |
| 24 | For this reason production cooperatives must be encouraged to grow from small beginnings over a period of time with sensitive support . |
| 25 | At the Elysee , a spokesman said there could be ‘ modulations ’ in presidential commitments over a period of years , and indicated that the president could take Fabius 's advice in the area of research spending . |
| 26 | In the case of bulk packages from which the product is likely to be removed in successive quantities over a period of time , separate tests should be carried out to assess the effect of storage in partly filled containers . |
| 27 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |
| 28 | Several of both kinds are needed , depending on the student , and are presented either simultaneously or in alternate sequence over a period of time . |
| 29 | Like many of the other city churches it was destroyed by fire in the eleventh-century , being totally rebuilt ( on the same foundations ) in Romanesque style over a period of two hundred years . |
| 30 | Your body may have become out of shape through general neglect over a period of years , yet you can transform it incredibly in a matter of days with my unique dieting methods and special exercises . |